Portal:Mexico/Years
This is very much a work in progress. guidelines will be similar to the timeline at Portal:San Francisco Bay Area
- January
- Cervantes Prize winning poet and essayist José Emilio Pacheco (pictured) dies
- April
- A bus crashes near Acayucan, killing at least 36 people
- A moment magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes in Guerrero state (epicenter pictured)
- July
- The official estimate of Mexico's population is 119,713,203, per the National Population Council (Conapo)[1], up from a 2010 UN estimate of 117,886,000 (population growth pictured)
- September
- Plans for a new Mexico City international airport are announced by Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto
- The biographical film Cantinflas, about the Mexican actor Cantinflas (pictured), is released nationally
- Hurricane Odile makes landfall on the Baja California peninsula
- October
- Allegations are made that employees of Grupo Financiero Banamex, a division of Citigroup, had taken millions of dollars in kickbacks from vendors.
- Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, keyboard player for Jack White, is found dead in his hotel room in Puebla, Mexico
- November
- Comedian Roberto Gómez Bolaños, known as "Chespirito", dies at age 85
- October
- Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, a suspected drug lord and former leader of the Juárez Cartel, is arrested in Torreón, Coahuila
- A mass grave is found outside Iguala in Guerrero, southern Mexico
- Students and teachers set fires inside a state capital building in Chilpancingo, in protests over the disappearance of 43 students believed abducted by local police linked to a drug cartel. The disappearance is being investigated for possible connections to the Iguala massacre
- The Federal Preventive Police take over 13 municipalities in Southern Mexico, where local police are suspected of links to organized crime [2]
- November
- In Mexico City, thousands protest the disappearance of 43 students after the discovery of mass graves.
- Methamphetamine seizures at the California - Mexico border are up by 300% from 2009 to 2014, with 14,732 pounds seized in 2014[3]
- October
- Ecatepec de Morelos gas tanker explosion
- Chactún is discovered
- train accident
- Torre Ejecutiva Pemex explosion
- Mexican Drug War :
- Jaime Guadalupe González Domínguez is killed
- Alberto López Bello is killed under suspicious circumstances
- 2012 Michoacán earthquake
- 2012 Guerrero–Oaxaca earthquake
- Álamo bus accident
- Altamira prison brawl
- Apodaca prison riot
- Mexican Drug War :
- 2010 Baja California earthquake
- 2010 Oaxaca earthquake
- 2010 Puebla oil pipeline explosion
- Mexican gubernatorial elections, 2010
- Ximena Navarrete wins Miss Universe
- Mexico celebrates 200 years of independence from Spain.
- Mexican Drug War :
- Yolanda Varela dies
- 2009 flu pandemic in Mexico
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- Veracruz, Veracruz founded by Cortez